Hello, welcome to Chinese Learn Chinese Lessons. My name is Len and today I would like to teach you one sentence in Chinese, and that sentence is “I have feelings for you.” So this has been a request on YouTube in I recommend everybody to send me a request on YouTube for the words you want to describe in Chinese and I can transform then into mini lessons like this one. I have feelings for you in Chinese, wo duì ni yǒu gǎn jüé, wo duì ni yǒu gǎn jüé. So I would like you to bring a pen and a piece of paper and we will go to the writing, the pronunciations and the meaning of this whole sentence wo duì ni yǒu gǎn jüé.
Okay, so let’s have a look at this sentence, wo duì ni yǒu gǎn jüé. So the first character wo means I and the second character duì means correct or right. However, in this case, it means to or towards. The third character ni means you. So wo duì ni means “I to you.”
The first character you means have and the fifth character gǎn means to feel. The last character jüé means to sense, so gǎn jüé altogether to feel and to sense is one single word in Chinese, which means feeling. So gǎn jüé means feeling. So altogether, wo duì ni yǒu gǎn jüé, “I to I to you have feelings” and in English, I have feelings to you.
Okay, let’s have a look at the writing and the pronunciations of each Chinese characters. The first character is wo which means I. You can see there it’s more likely a left and right structure character so let’s have a look at the demonstration, how do you write this character.
[Demonstration]
Okay, now back to the pronunciations. As you can see that the pinyin is WO. So W pronounced u and O pronounced o, with the third tone that goes from up to down and then up again. It is wo, wo, wo or in the shorter version, wo, wo, wo.
The second character is duì which means towards or right. In this case, it’s more likely towards in terms of connecting I and U together. So duì is more likely a left and right structured character. So let’s have look at the demonstration, how do you write this character.
[Demonstration]
Okay, now back to the pronunciations. You can see that the pinyin is DUI, so D pronounced du and UI pronounced uey, with the fourth tone that goes from up to down, it is duì, duì, duì or in the shorter version, duì, duì, duì.
The third character is nǐ which means “you” and you can see that it’s more likely a left and right structured character, so let’s have a look at the demonstration, how do you write this character in Chinese.
[Demonstration]
Okay, now back to the pronunciation. You can see that the pinyin is NI, so N pronounced nu and I pronounced ee, with the third tone that goes from up to down and then up again. It is nǐ, nǐ, nǐ or in the shorter version, nǐ, nǐ, nǐ.
The next character is yǒu and you can see that it’s more likely up and down structure character and yǒu means “have.” Let’s have a look at the demonstration, how do you write this character.
[Demonstration]
Okay, now back to the pronunciation. You can see that it is YOU, so Y pronounced yi and OU pronounced o, with the third tone that goes from up to down and then up again, it is yǒu, yǒu, yǒu.
The next character is gǎn, which means to “feel.” Gǎn jüé altogether mean feelings. So you can see that gǎn is more likely up and down structured character. Let’s have a look at the demonstration, how do you write this character in Chinese.
[Demonstration]
Okay, now back to the pronunciation. You can see that the pinyin is GAN. So G pronounced gu, and AN pronounced an and with the third tone that goes from up to down and then up again, it is gǎn, gǎn, gǎn or in the shorter version, gǎn, gǎn, gǎn.
The last character is jüé, which means to sense. So you can see that jüé is more likely up and down structured character. So let’s have a look at the demonstration, how do you write this character jüé.
[Demonstration]
Okay, now back to the pronunciation. You can see that it is JUE, and U has two dots on it. So J pronounced tsi, and U with two dots together with E pronounced uea. So altogether, JUE with the second tone that goes from down to up, it is jüé, jüé, jüé or in the shorter version, jüé, jüé, jüé.
Okay, so altogether for the sentence, wo duì ni yǒu gǎn jüé.
Okay, that’s fantastic! So that’s the lesson for you today; wo duì ni yǒu gǎn jüé.
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